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Which Camera Lens is Right For You?
Buying yourself a new lens - particularly if this is your first purchase away from the kit lens - can be an overwhelming experience! It's an important decision for you to make too, since your lens choice plays a critical role in making sure you images look the way you want them to! Unfortunately, there is no one single lens that will suit everybody, all of the time, so which lens is best definitely comes down to personal choice.
With that in mind, I've come up with 8 questions that you can ask yourself before you buy a lens to determine which is the best lens choice for YOU, and help you narrow down all the options that are out there.
My Project 365 2016 Photo Book
Last year I created a photo book of all my Project 365 photos from 2015, and I cannot tell you how much I LOVE it! After looking through it at the end of last year, it really renewed my motivation to continue with the project for another year. So, for 2016, I'm doing pretty much the same thing again, but I thought I'd share again in case any one else would like to do something similar with their 365 photos.
8 Top Beginner Photography Tips
Get started on your photography journey with these top photography tips for beginners!
If you are brand new to digital photography, I know it can seem a little overwhelming with everything you need to learn. So here are 8 beginner photography tips which will get you started on the right path, and help you on your way to taking beautiful pictures in no time. Each tip has links to further reading too, so you might also want to pin / bookmark this one for future reference!
6 Low-Cost Ways to Learn Photography
Photography can be a very expensive hobby - the gear alone can run pretty steep, and once you add on things like editing software and so on, there sometimes isn't a lot left over to use on learning how to use the darn things! However, at all ages and stages of your photography journey, you will want to keep learning! The good news is, there are lots of ways to learn photography that don't cost the earth, or even better, are free! Here's six of them:
Making the Switch From JPEG to RAW
When shooting with a DSLR, you have two choices of file formats in which to take your image - RAW or JPEG. Most amateurs shoot in JPEG. If you do, and are happy with the results you are getting, then of course by all means you can continue to do so! However, if you worry about not getting your settings right, or you want to improve the final look of your images, then I strongly suggest giving shooting in RAW a chance. Although it’s not a magic pill for getting good images, shooting in RAW can help enormously as it gives you another chance to get it right! You get much more leeway once you come to edit the photo in RAW, you will be able to bring up under exposed photos without introducing wonky color casts and grey skin, or bring back highlights and detail in images that you have over-exposed.
How to take a Self Portrait
I have to say, I find self portraits quite hard going! I'm much more comfortable being on the other side of the camera, for sure. There’s nothing really more complicated about self photography than ”normal” photography, the biggest problem is the logistics of getting yourself behind the camera, and making sure that you are in focus (and not feeling silly having a camera trained on you!) and actually pressing the shutter!
Here's a step by step guide to taking your own self portraits.
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It's been quite a few years now since I made the switch from Aperture Priority Mode to shooting in Manual Mode, and it was one of the BEST things I ever did to improve my photography skills.
It was like a whole new world opened up to me, and I started TRULY understanding exposure, and in turn, getting the images that I wanted.
Of course, there was a lot to learn, and there are some things I wish I had known before I started!
So, here are 10 things about shooting in Manual Mode that you might just wish you knew…